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Massimo Giordano
Massimo Giordano (*born February 19th, 1971) is an Italian operatic tenor known for bel canto repertoire.

Giordano was born in Pompei, Italy. He spent his early childhood in Boscoreale a village near Naples. He is born to Alberto a mason and Anna a homemaker and has one sister, Marilena who is married to Sicilian tenor Antonino Siragusa. Early Life

At the age of 8, Giordano moved with his family to Trieste where he entered into the local conservatory G. Tartini to study the flute. One day after school near the time of his graduation from the conservatory as a flutist he discovered his voice by accident. In an empty classroom he decided to sing a Neapolitan song for fun while a classmate, a pianist with a visual impairment, accompanied him. It was the moment when Giordano realized he had the ability to sing. Giordano says it was his friend who encouraged him to audition for the conservatory to study voice. He studied singing with Cecilia Fusco at the age of 18 and later graduated from the conservatory “G. Tartini” in Trieste. In 1997 he won the “A. Belli” competition in Spoleto where he also gave his debut in La Clemenza di Tito at the Teatro Lirico.

Professional Career

In the following years young Massimo Giordano successfully conquered the opera stages in Italy with performances in Reggio Emilia, Parma, Modena, Rome, Venice, Naples and ultimately at La Scala in Milan. A young tenor of his quality appearing on stage, of course, raised great attention at opera houses abroad and it did not take long until his debut beyond the borders of Italy at the Salzburg Festivals in 2001 with Claudio Abbado and Lorin Maazel. He further performed at the Zurich Opera, Semper Opera in Dresden, the Theatre du Capitole in Toulouse as well as at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Further major debuts included La Traviata in Tokyo, Falstaff at the London Royal Opera, L’Elisir d’Amore at the Vienna State Opera, the Verdi Requiem in Sydney, La Traviata at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Gianni Schicchi at the Glyndebourne Festival, his New York debut in a concert of Mignon at Carnegie Hall, Romeo and Juliette at the Munich State Opera and at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, La boheme at the Berlin Staatsoper and Il trittico at the New York Metropolitan Opera where he later also sang in Manon, Gianni Schicchi, La Traviata, La bohème and L’Elisir d’Amore.

Additional highlights of Massimo Giordano’s career include a special performance of Verdi’s Requiem at the Vatican sacred to the memory of Pope John Paul II shortly after his death in 2005, the world-wide Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast of Massenet’s Manon with Renée Fleming in 2006 and performances as Rinuccio in an international television broadcast of Gianni Schicchi in Puccini’s Il trittico in 2007 for the Metropolitan Opera under the baton of James Levine.

He has collaborated with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Maurizio Benini, Riccardo Chailly, Bruno Campanella, Vladamir Fedoseyev, Gianluigi Gelmetti, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Jurowski, Antonio Pappano, Michel Plasson, Yuri Termirkanov, Fabio Luisi and Marco Armiliato.

First Album

On October 29th 2012 Massimo Giordano signed an exclusive master right agreement with BMG Rights Management. The album marks Giordano’s debut solo recording. Giordano in an interview described the recording of his first album as accomplishing his ultimate dream. The album titled“ Amore e Tormento” was recorded with the Ensemble Del Maggio Musicale in Florence, Italy and features signature Italian arias. The Album will be released on May 6th, 2013.

Personal Life

Giordano is a passionate chess player, loves classical paintings and soccer. In his youth, Giordano enjoyed listening to heavy metal music and is now open to all music genres. He has two children with his wife Alexandrina and resides with his family in northern Italy where his career began.

External links


 * www.massimogiordano.com
 * http://www.bmg.com/category/music/?artist=massimo-giordano
 * http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1904470/filmogenre